Camden Centre for Learning

(CCfL)

Information and Referral Pack

Our Vision

• hallenge Yourself - We believe every student and adult should challenge

themselves to achieve their best and achieve their potential.

• elebrate Achievement - We personalise our learning programmes to

ensure all students can achieve and we take every opportunity to

celebrate student achievements at all levels.

• ocus on Success - We focus on what a student can do, identifying

individual targets to support students to succeed in the next step in their

learning as well as to make the right choice in their behaviour.

• earn for Life - The education we provide is designed to improve a

student’s life chances and should support a student’s learning not only

whilst in school but support the students to continue to learn at all stages

of their life.

Director CCfL: Ms Jeanette Lowe

Head of Key Stage 3 School: Ms Gabriella Thomas

Head of Key Stage 4 School: Ms Liz Rattue

Camden Centre for Learning (CCfL)

What are our Aims?

• To provide high quality local provision for secondary aged students with

SEBD who are unable to access mainstream provision.

• To provide a more flexible continuum of provision to meeting students’

needs from short term re-engagement programmes to long term

placements for students with the most complex needs.

• To provide personalised learning opportunities and a broader more flexible

range of curriculum pathways to ensure all students can achieve.

• To provide coherent and integrated multi agency provision for the young

people and their families and to ensure effective and responsive

approaches to meeting the holistic needs of young people and their

families.

Who do we cater for?

The CCfL is Camden’s educational provision for secondary aged students whose

primary need is their social, emotional or behavioural development.

We cater for up to a 100 young people who require specialist SEBD provision,

including students:

identified as requiring such provision through a statement of SEN (SEBD),

who have been permanently excluded from mainstream school, or are at

significant risk of being permanently excluded, and

requiring a managed short term intervention to prevent permanent exclusion.

How are we organised?

The CCFL is comprised of the three specialist services in Camden that currently

provide support for secondary aged children and young people with social, emotional

and behavioural difficulties (SEBD): The SEBD Special School; the KS3 Pupil Referral

Unit and the KS4 Pupil Referral Unit. The provision is predominantly organised into

two schools split by Key Stage.

A small number of students have an Individualised Programme and these are co-

ordinated through Brecknock House but could take place at a variety of venues

around Camden.

In addition we have students who attend our Re-engagement ‘Reach’ Programme and

these students attend on a half term basis, remain on the roll of their mainstream

school and are re-integrated back into school

The CCfL has embedded support from a multi-agency team to enable a more

responsive and effective approach to meeting families’ and individual’s needs.

CCfL KS3

School

Re-engagement

'Reach' Programme

Placements for excluded students +

re-integration mainstream

school

Long term SEBD

Placements

Individualised Programmes

CCfL KS4

School

Individualised Programmes

Vocational Placements

Long Term SEBD

Placements

Placements for

Excluded Students

Where are we located?

The provisions are located predominantly on two school sites: one focusing on Key

Stage 3 and one on Key Stage 4. There is an ongoing building programme to remodel

and improve the existing buildings so they are fit for purpose and enable the CCFL to

meet the continuum of need from small group provision to more personalised learning

packages for students who cannot engage in group learning activities. It is envisaged

the building programme will be completed by 2015. In addition a small number of

students who are on individualised programmes receive education at Brecknock House.

Students referred on to the Re-engagement ‘Reach’ Programme attend The Eversholt

Centre.

The provisions are currently located at the following sites:

CCfL Key Stage 3 School

Head of Key Stage 3 School: Ms Gabriella Thomas

Ainsworth Way, off Boundary Road, London NW8 OSR.

Tel No: 020 7974 3936 e-mail: gabriella.thomas@camden.gov.uk

CCfL Key Stage 4 School:

Head of Key Stage 4 School: Ms Liz Rattue

Harmood Street, Camden, London, NW18DP.

Tel No 020 7485 2147 e-mail: deputy@chalcot.camden.sch.uk

Individualised Programmes

Lead teacher/Co-ordinator: Nina Foster/Kim Daley

Brecknock House –115 Brecknock Road, London, N19 5AH

Tel No 020 7974 8170 e-mail: nina.foster@camden.gov.uk/

kim.daley@camden.gov.uk

Re-engagement ‘Reach Programme’

Lead Teacher: Ms Nina Foster

The Eversholt Centre Lidlington Place, 223 Eversholt street, London NW1 2JU

Tel No : 02073833826 e-mail: nina.foster@camden.gov.uk

What are the Referral Routes?

Referral Pathways to KS3 & KS4 specialist SEBD provision - See Appendix 1

Schools - Students who require a short term Re-engagement Placement

The KS3 Re-engagement ‘Reach’ Programme is available for schools to refer directly into

and the referral process and criteria for this programme are circulated to all schools

annually.

Referrals to this programme are monitored via the CCfL Referral Panel. In the majority

of cases schools would refer to this programme prior to a student being allocated a

permanent CCfL placement. If a student was not successful whist on the programme this

would provide further evidence for placement at the CCfL

School Inclusion Team – Students who have been permanently excluded

For students who had been permanently excluded from schools, referrals need to be

made directly from schools via the School Inclusion Team.

The referrals would be processed by the relevant Head of School and would be reported

at the next CCfL Referral Meeting for ratification of appropriateness of placement.

School Inclusion Team – Students at point of exclusion

For students who require a managed move as an alternative to permanent exclusion

referrals need to be made directly from schools via the School Inclusion Team.

In order to ensure we correctly identify students who would benefit from a managed

move it is important schools ensure they follow the referral criteria checklist procedure.

See Appendix 2.

SEN Panel - Students with a Statement of Special Educational Needs

All students with a statement of Special Educational Needs would need to be referred

through the Statutory SEN process. This would usually be through the Annual Review of

the student’s statement.

Camden students in Outborough schools

For students who are currently attending an outborough school, the process needs to be

followed as above. The CCfL multi agency staff could be available to attend a multi-agency

meeting in an outborough school to explore appropriateness of transition back to Camden

Re-integration back into School

It is envisaged that the majority of students at Key Stage 3 and a smaller number of

students in Year 10 would be referred to the Fair Access Panel for a re-integration

placement at a local secondary school. It is important that students who can manage in

mainstream school are placed back into school to ensure that the CCfL has capacity for

the most complex students.

All referrals must go through the CCfL Referral Panel

Referral Documentation

The Camden Passport needs to be fully completed for the referral to be accepted and any

accompanying and relevant paperwork needs to be attached. For Referrals at KS4

Academic Pupil Information also needs to be completed. See Appendices at the end of the

pack.

Referral Panel

The Referral Panel considers all referrals into the CCfL and is comprised of the following

representatives:

o Jeanette Lowe: Director of Camden Centre for Learning

o Gabriella Thomas :Head of KS3 School

o Liz Rattue: Head of Key Stage 4 School

o Nina Foster: Lead Re-engagement Teacher (Responsible for the Re-engagement

‘Reach’ Programme and Individualised Programmes

o Kim Daley : Individual Programme Co-ordinator

o Pippa Cossey: Senior Administrative Officer

o Jim Donovan: School Inclusion Team

o John Hudson/ Diane Pearson: SEN Services

o Mike Solomon: Consultant Clinical Psychologist/CCfL Multi agency team

Manager

o Victoria Lidchi: Tavistock Complex needs

o CCfL EP: Olivia Kenneally, Kerry Moore

o Mainstream School Rep

The Referral Panel meets fortnightly on Thursdays. Referrals received by the Friday

before the following meeting will be processed for the following Thursday. Referrals

received after that date will be processed for the meeting two weeks later. Incomplete

referrals will be returned and referrers will be asked to provide the additional

information prior to a decision about placement being made.

Informal Queries

If schools would like to discuss a referral prior to submission they can contact one of the

Panel to discuss, who will either try to respond to their queries or direct them to the

most appropriate person to talk to. If capacity allows we would try to attend a meeting in

school to discuss the appropriateness of a referral.

Placement

If a student is accepted for a placement within the CCfL the current school may be

expected to attend a multi-agency meeting to ensure all the appropriate information is

shared and a smooth transition is facilitated.

The CCfL Referral Panel will decide on the most appropriate aspect of the provision for

placement within the CCfL.

Appendix 1: Referral Flowchart

Appendix 2: Camden Information Passport

Appendix 3: Camden Centre for Learning Referral Criteria Checklist

Appendix 4: KS4 Academic Pupil Information

Appendix 5: Camden Centre for Learning Referral Panel Outcome Letter

Student Information Passport Date Completed:

Date Updated:

Please complete all sections and/or attach and refer to relevant other documents

Last name: First name: Date of birth:

Home address:

Telephone:

Year group:

Ethnicity:

1st Language:

EAL Stage:

Parents / carers Language used in home:

Name: Name: Free School Meals (Y/N):No

Relationship: Relationship: Looked After Child (Y/N):No

Who else lives in the home:

Reason for referral / transfer request:

National Curriculum Levels (date: ) English Maths Science ICT Art/DT PE

Tests: Key Stage (Please ) 1 2 3

Teacher assessments:

Period % Period % Period %

Authorised absence

Unauthorised absence

Lateness

Exclusions (reason) Type Sessions From To

Medical information:

Name and Address of GP:

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities:

Code Of Practice Stage: (Please ) School Action School Action Plus Statement

Category (Primary = 1, secondary = 2 etc) Learning Communication Sensory Physical SEBD

Current provision:

Previous in- and out-of-school interventions From To Outcome

Preferred learning styles (what has worked well in school and what has not)

Barriers to learning (e.g. poor communications skills / emotional needs / attention difficulties )

Interests / out of school activities / membership of clubs:

Favourite lessons:

Appendix 3

Future Pathways / Career Aims / Ambitions:

Please also comment on the following:

Family relationships:

Peer relationships:

General well-being:

Alert for possible health and safety risk assessment

Is there any indication that the student could present a risk to self or others? (Y/N): Yes

(If ‘yes’ please give details, including nature and level of risk, and suggested management):

Involvement of Safeguarding and Social Care

Details From To Contact

Involvement of other agencies (e.g. EWS, Behaviour Support, Youth Offending, Health, Housing, Psychology, etc.)

Agency From To Contact

Please list all other relevant plans attached and/or referred to in this document.

(e.g. CAF, IEP, Risk Assessment, ASSET, Resettlement plan etc.) Date

Attached

()

Please supply any other information you have that may support the pupil’s transition:

Name of person(s) completing this document Date Signature

Name of school / setting:

Camden Centre for Learning

Referral Criteria Checklist

Please complete for following criteria checklist prior to referral

Criteria Yes No Evidence

Available

1. Is there evidence that the student has significant

social, emotional and behavioural needs?

2. Is there evidence of school based intervention

over time ( at least a year) and the impact of these

interventions

3. Has there been a referral/discussion with the

school educational psychologist and has any

advice/intervention been acted upon and the

impact of this reviewed?

4. Has there been discussion/consultation with the

school CAMHS link worker and has their advice

been acted upon?

5. Are there any safeguarding concerns?

If so has the case been discussed with duty and

assessment?

6. If the student is a permanently excluded student

has the student been referred to FAP for

placement in another school?

7. Has consideration been given to the Eversholt

Reach Programme?

8. If the student is statemented has the school

followed SEN processes e.g. called an emergency

review of the statement

9. For students at KS4 has a vocational pathway been

explored as a more appropriate alternative to

exclusion, referral to CCfL.

10. Is the parent in agreement with the referral to

the CCfL?

Appendix 4: CCfL Academic Pupil Information: Key Stage 4

Name of Pupil

Year School

Key Stage 4 Programme

Subjects Examination boards specifications/levels

Current levels

Predicted grade

Coursework completed

Coursework outstanding

Other Vocational Courses Centres attended & contact details

Post 16 Progression Route

Any other Information

If more than one pupil excluded would you recommend could they be educated together or is feasible should they be separated?

Name of Staff Member Completing Form:

Position: Date:

Appendix 5 – Camden Centre for Learning Referral Panel Outcome Letter

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Date: Dear Referral to Camden Centre for Learning Your request for placement at the Camden Centre for Learning was discussed at the panel Meeting on (insert date) Unfortunately the Panel were not able to accept the referral at his time as the student did not meet the following criteria in the Referral Checklist. Please see checklist attached. The Panel have suggested that Or The Panel were able to accept the referral and xxxx will contact you to discuss the next steps If you wish to discuss this referral further please contact xxxx Yours sincerely Jeanette Lowe Director Camden Centre for Learning

Director: Ms Jeanette Lowe

Email: J.Lowe@camden.gov.uk

J.lowe@chalcot.camden.sch.uk

KS3 School Ainsworth way, Off Boundary Road London NW8 0SR Tel: 020 7974 3953 Head of School: Gabriella Thomas

Gabriella.Thomas@camden.gov.uk

KS4 School Harmood Street

London NW1 8DP Tel: 020 7485 2147

Head of School: Liz Rattue

L.Rattue@chalcot.camden.sch.uk